Word: voluntaryism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The enthusiasm of La Leche mothers is now receiving increased scientific support. A husband-wife team of physician and psychologist, Dr. Michael Newton and Dr. Niles Newton of Chicago, point out in the New England Journal of Medicine that the survival of the species originally depended upon "the satisfactions gained...
The blessings of privacy, you understand, are not limited to protection from the public; they protect one from one's relatives as well. As it happens, I ascribe much of the success of my own three marriages (that's not many at my age I happen to be 68) to...
Close to 90% of drug addicts at federal hospitals suffer relapses once they are released. At Synanon, a privately run California halfway house for narcotics users, a combination of selfhelp, trust and group therapy has lowered the figure to as little as 20%. So successful is Synanon that five affiliates...
In his first installment, Shakespeare sticks closely to business. There are in Richard II no scenes of comic relief such as adorn the three succeeding installments. Here the dramatist concentrates on four main phases: Richard's regnal recklessness: his cousin Bolingbroke's victorious invasion to retrieve his rightful property; Richard...
To justify its ruling, the court turned to the medical profession. Expert defense testimony by a psychiatrist, explained Justice Thurgood Marshall, included the statement that Powell's first drink on each binge was a "voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled...